Neil Freiman

Well, you don't see this type of deal that often or at all.

Yesterday, the Trump administration announced it would pay French energy giant Total Energies almost $1 billion to not build wind farms off the East Coast and instead invest in fossil fuel projects in the U.S.,

The Department of Interior will reimburse $928 billion to Total, the amount it paid for two offshore wind leases, which it will then use to produce oil and gas.

The New York Times called it an extraordinary transfer of taxpayer dollars to a foreign company for the purposes of boosting the production of fossil fuels.

Explaining the deal at an energy conference,

Interior Secretary Doug Borgum called wind power ineffective and predicted a new era of affordable, reliable, and secure energy.

The CEO of Total, for his part, said it was a pragmatic business decision considering that offshore wind had gotten too expensive in the U.S.

given the Trump administration's resistance.

Finally, in case you missed it, the UK version of Saturday Night Live made its debut this weekend and people didn't hate it.

Reviews were mixed but mostly positive in that most thought it was going to be a huge flop and it was actually pretty funny at times.

President Trump even shared the cold open making fun of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Trump on his Truth Social platform.

They didn't exactly reinvent the

wheel here American viewers of SNL UK would have found a lot familiar with the show back home there was a celebrity host Tina Fey a fake pre-taped commercial a buzzy musical guest wet leg and a ragtag roster of comedians you've never heard of doing sketch comedy even the set was eerily familiar to the one at Rockefeller Center Toby I watched a bunch of the clips on YouTube as one does and I liked it

No, but people, those are the worst people.

And I'm one of them where you're like, Hey, look at this funny clip on Instagram here.

Watch it.

Um, that was me for SNL UK.

I apologize to everyone.

I did that too here at the office.

Okay.